The Soviet Regime. 
By Gregory Landau. 
CONTENTS: Pre-revolutionary Regime; The Rise of the Bolshevic Regime; The 
Monopoly of Organising; The Individual and the State; The Organs of the Soviet 
Power; Conclusion. 
Introduction. 
| | P to this day the opinion is rampant in some circles, which justifies 
the monstrosities and crimes of the Soviet regime by pretending that 
it is but the heirloom of the “Tzaristic” regime; not rarely are the accu- 
sations alleged against Bolshevism formulated in saying that it equals 
‘Tzarism” or even exceeds it. All such opinions essentially tend to warp 
the idea not only of the old regime, but also that of the Bolshevic regime. 
Bad or good, the old regime remained on the other side of that abyss 
which separates Bolshevism from modern administration of States. 
I. Pre-revolutionary Regime. 
There is no need to detail the enormity of Russia's territory, her more 
than 150 million inhabitants, peopling her with an exceedingly variable 
density; nor to speak of the numerous races, nations and religions constitu- 
ting within her an incomparable variety of cultural level (from the refined 
intelligentcia of the Capitals to the Esquimaux, and the Siberian tribes, etc.) 
among which it is divided; nor of the different periods when various 
non-Russian territories had been added to the body of Russia. (Among the 
territories annexed were not only desert country and sparsely inhabited 
regions, not only of low-culture and half savage, but also highly cultured, 
densely populated countries such as Poland and the Baltic regions, to whom 
some of their original organisation and jurisdiction was left). This is well 
known, though usually forgotten when estimates are being made. Con- 
sidering the continnity of her geographical and anthropological oneness, 
Russia represented a consolidated State; but at the same time, she either 
included within herself, or was immediately extended by territories and 
peoples, corresponding to the colonies of other States. Russia contained 
her own colonies within herself, and by this very fact she, on the one side, 
extended to them the benefits of a general State order, while on the other 
she got pervaded to a certain extent by “colonial” peculiarities. such as 
the “riot act’, juridical restrictions, etc. 
It may be stated that in the Greater British Empire, there exist 
“different rights’, innumerable “juridical restrictions”, ‘‘riot acts’, dictator- 
ships of Governor-Generals which may be on a far more extensive scale than 
in the former Russian Empire. But they are considered to be, and they 
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